There has been a deluge of long-dormant bands reforming over the past few years, but few have made a more convincing fist of picking up where they left off than fuzz-rock classicists Dinosaur Jr. In the two years since founder members J Mascis and Lou Barlow kissed and made up, marking the occasion with a clutch of celebratory gigs - playing their classic album You're Living All Over Me in its entirety - there has been almost constant touring and a very decent new album, Beyond.

Mascis, grizzled but resplendent in his Negative Approach T-shirt and vast Gandalf-grey mane, continues to straddle the boundaries between gnarly punker and long-haired rockster in winning style - and, boy, can he still play. From the off, belting through the joyful three-chord charge of new album opener Almost Ready, the squealing streams of melody bursting from his guitar sound as glorious and vivid as ever. Even songs that sounded merely good on Beyond really come alive tonight, the likes of Crumble and This Is All I Came to Do making their toothsome hooks felt as strongly as much of the older material.

There is plenty of that, too - happily, relations even seem good enough to allow playing through Dinosaur songs from the period after Barlow was kicked out of the band, such as the terrific Out There, in which every riff is a little solo in itself. By the time they get round to major old-time treats such as In a Jar and Freak Scene, the packed house is a frothing mass of fandom, people crowdsurfing like they are 16 again (which most here have not been for quite some time). The Jr might not be all that apt these days, but the resumption of normal service is to be celebrated.